My new love....

....so i'm officially OBSESSED with the new "Just Bunches" cereal! I don't even like cereal and I have no clue what made me try this one, but i'm surely glad I did cause it rocks. I eat it like a snack, no milk and can't get enough. It's just sweet enough to feel like dessert....yummmmmmm....go get some and let me know what you think!

"I love you, please say you love me too..." - Celine Dion

Music...

...so don't forget to watch the 52nd Grammy Awards THIS SUNDAY!! I can't wait...it's gonna be good...and there's always a scandal :)

"i've got a feelin'...." -BEP

Answers...

...so a friend of mine, Colcol was asking a few questions regarding the story I posted yesterday. She and I wondered the same things...like why come out now? Why wasn't there anything said before the priest died? In todays Chronicle Herald, the story is better explained and many of our questions were answered. Here's the link:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1164754.html

It's a shame that these women had to go through this. In the article it notes that the abuse started when one of the ladies was only 3 years old. No 3 year old should have to go through something like that. It's also a shame as the parents, i'm assuming, thought they were doing the right thing by having their children involved in the church. It's a huge mistrust...a breach of confidence....an illegal act....and to have community service as a sentence, that's a slap in the face.

Here we go again...

...so I read the Yarmouth Vanguard online and here's an article stating that yet again, another priest that served in Yarmouth County is being investigated. Link: http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-425847-Third-priest-named-in-lawsuits-filed-against-the-Diocese-of-Yarmouth-that-allege-sexual-abuse.html

I try not to discuss religion on my blog as I know it's a very controvertial topic, but just so you know, I am catholic and this is really discouraging. I received a letter from the local church not that long ago asking for dontations...well after hearing all these stories I have to admit it's really hard to find it in my heart to give. I want to believe that this doesn't happen anymore, but that would be really naive. This type of behavior happens all the time and not just in the Catholic Church. The reason it's more in the headlines is because the church is often held to a different standard...more so in the olden days than now...but still it's suppposed to be a place that is sacred, that is peaceful, that is for all of us to go and feel safe...and with all these stories it makes that seem like more of a farce than anything else.

I can appreciate that some don't feel this way and there's nothing wrong with that...just for me, it's real hard to feel like giving when so many other institutions, families, countries, people are in need. My money is not to go to pay lawsuits...my money isn't to pay victims for wrongdoings....I feel for these victims but I didn't sweep this problem under the rug and those who did should pay.

Noise...

...so this morning I was faxing some documents and was totally annoyed by the awful noises the fax machine makes. Why haven't they found a way to make a fax silent? My internet doesn't ping ting eeeekkkk aaaaaa everytime I send someone an email so why does the fax have to make these shreaking noises? Also, if it does have to make noise then why so darn high pitch? It makes the hairs on your neck stand up and if you're standing to close you could end up with hearing loss...we're 2010...can someone invent a noise free fax line?

Oh and CHarlene, you're right...a product to stop the wires from coming out of your bra would be nice too. I did some research and apparently there are a few products that help with those pesky wires - none of them make any sense to me so maybe i'll work on making one myself. I always thought I could do real well pitching something to the Dragon's on CBC's Dragon's Den!

"Come on feel the noise..." - Quiet Riot

Zumba...

...so last night I went to a Zumba class. It's basically like doing back-up dancing in a 50 Cent or Nelly video. It's lots of booty popping, shaking your ta-ta's and getting down low to the music. Needless to say, I'm totally sore this morning. Man...every time I move I have a lot of body parts that tend to shake along with me and it hurts! Some of the girls were jumping while doing a air-humping motion...I was like, HELLLL NOOOO! That is not something I should make anyone go through...my boobs hit my chin, my C-Section flappa bangs against my hips, my hip fat shakes so much that when I stop it takes a few minutes for it to stop....phew, what a process! Anyways, I have a new found respect for Beyonce now. She has got to be superwoman...sing and do all that for hours on end...good lord...I nearly died in the process.

It was a great time and I would do it again, but I can say that i'll never do it in a room with mirrors :P

"Shake that thing..." - Sean Paul

Singing...

...so I tape Oprah everyday and I hope to make it to see her show before she retires ...yeah I know, that's a dream. Anyways, one thing that always cracks me up is when she has musical guests. The camera always pans to her dancing and singing to the music, but she never sings the words at the right place! Ever notice that? She sings totally offbeat...drives me nuts!! I know her friend Gail calls her everyday to talk about the show and often tells her if she hated her hair or her outfit...why on earth wouldn't she inform her that her singing is totally off?? I know her claim to fame is not singing, but man...she's wayyyyyy off...like not just a little...A LOT. She's basically still singing the chorus when the verse starts. Doesn't she clue in that she's not doing like the singer? She should never get a music career...stick to talking. Actually, while we're on topic, there's another thing she does that kinda irks me and it's that when she says something that she feels is real deep, she repeats it. Like, yesterday when she was talking about Wyclef Jean and his experience in Haiti. She said something like this: Wyclef described Haiti as an apocalypse. It's an apocalypse. I never thought of it like that before....Haiti is an apocalypse..." OK, OK, I get it...an Apocalypse...heard it the first time. hehehe...I know she just wants to get the point across, but she always does that. I guess it's just her thing. Hey, who am I to say, after all she makes something like $250 Million/year...that's much more money than I'll ever know!

"Oooooo Oprah..." - The Old Oprah theme music

SAVE SAVE SAVE...

...so did you want some coupons???? I order Procter and Gamble Samples all the time and now they have a place where you can order some coupons...awesome Coupons! I signed up today and have about $20 in savings comming to me in the mail within the next couple weeks....here's the link:

http://www.brandsaver.ca/en_ca/?utm_source=YF&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jan10Newsletter

Don't you just love the internet...

...so this morning, as I read the news online, I found this article and I thought i'd share with you. It's an article regarding the benefits of drinking coffee! YAY...I knew it was good for me!! hahahah...ok, I didn't actually think that, but I was hoping and leave it to the internet to find an article to make me feel better about drinking all this java!

Enjoy...while you drink your Timmies!


Filtering the Facts: 7 Fresh Perks from Coffee
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Coffee lovers may be raising their cups at the growing stream of positive news about their favorite drink. For healthy adults, having two or three cups of joe daily generally isn’t harmful and it may have health perks. Some recent findings even suggest that coffee may help lower the risk of diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

A cup of coffee contains about 1 gram of soluble fiber, the type that can help lower cholesterol, according to a recent report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Recent Harvard studies, involving more than 193,000 people, found that regular coffee drinkers had a significantly lower risk of type 2 diabetes than those who abstained. The more they drank, the lower their risk.

Despite coffee’s reputation for being bad for the heart, recent epidemiologic studies haven’t found a connection; some even suggest coffee can be protective. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that healthy people 65 and over who drank four or more cups of caffeinated beverages daily (primarily coffee) had a 53 percent lower risk of heart disease than non-coffee-drinkers.

Coffee has more antioxidants per serving than blueberries do, making it the top source of antioxidants in our diets. Antioxidants help quell inflammation, which might explain coffee’s effect in inflammation-related diseases like diabetes and heart disease.
Magnesium found in coffee might help make cells more sensitive to insulin (increased insulin sensitivity results in healthier blood glucose levels).

Caffeine seems to have its own beneficial effects; the diabetes studies found that those who drank regular coffee had lower risks of the disease than decaf drinkers.
Caffeinated-coffee drinking has also been linked with reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease, gallstones, cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Bottom Line:
For most people who enjoy coffee, there’s no reason to cut back; there may even be health benefits. However, for some, exceeding one’s caffeine tolerance—which varies—can cause irritability, headache and insomnia. The temporary rise in heart rate and blood pressure could cause problems for people with heart disease, and new moms should be aware that caffeine passes into breast milk.

"....clouds in my coffee..." - Carly Simon

What Would You Do?...

...so I was reading the Chronicle Herald and there was an article about a Quebec man who won $20 Million in the lottery last week. He worked at the hospital and once he found out he won he called his boss and left him a voicemail advising him he was quitting....all he said was "Bye-Bye"! Hahaha....what do you think you would say? Would you tell off your boss? Would you throw a party for your colleagues? Would you just never show up to work again? Would you be nice? I guess I really hadn't given it much thought cause when I think about winning the lottery I think about what i'd do with the money...not what I'd do for work and how i'd go about it. I'd be willing to bet there would be a few people that would looooooove to tell of their bosses...hahaha...now wouldn't you want to be a fly on the wall to overhear that conversation! What a hoot!

"If I had a million dollars...." - Barenaked Ladies

Phone Bill...

...so I was looking at my phone bill the other day and wondered how much people pay in long distance calls? I called Halifax a few times and it seems like it would of cost a fortune had I not had a plan that covered all calls within the 902 area code. Then it really got me thinking...how much is the White House's phone bill?? They must make a whack of long distance calls in the run of a day. I wonder how much it costs to call Iran? What about South America somewhere? Their phone bill must be something else...and really the American People are paying for it through their taxes. I guess the same thing goes for our Prime Minister. Is it cheaper to fly and chat than it is to call? In some instances it might just be....anyways...I wish we could see their bill...and how many personal calls are on there too :P hum....

"Call me!" - Blondie

As seen on TV...

...so I saw this video today and was amazed. It's a Canadian Guy who went to jail for a slew of robberies. I was amazed as what he was able to pull-off...I thought things like this only happened in the movies

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?rn=222561&cl=17566285&lang=

Strip Search...

...so the Airports are going to install these machines that do a full body scan, like a strip search without actually taking your clothes off. Well isn't that nice... I don't like this idea at all. I don't want anyone to see me naked, or even a silhouette of me without my clothes. I'd rather they pat me down. Like how much to they see on the screen? I want to see a pic of what they see before I go ahead and do it! Will they see if I've "groomed" the area? Will they see if I have a sexy bra? Will they see through the bra and get a peek at my "pump sucked, really icky, baby feeding" part? Will they see my rolls and be able to count them? I have a lot of questions....it's kinda disturbing. They say it'll only be used as a secondary screening tool and it'll be a choice of this machine or a pat down...and it all came about after some guy tried to blow up a plane near Detroit before Christmas with explosives that were sewn into his underwear. Well, seems to me, if they would of patted down that guy they would have noticed rather lumpy drawers...so did he actually qualify for the second screening? Was he searched a little extra cause he was red flagged? If not, then what the hell is the difference? He'd still get on the plane and I'd be stuck grossing someone out with my fabulous physique!

Well maybe they should check...I don't know....and now that I think of it, if I can have 50 cents under my boob without even noticing then you can only imagine what I can fit under all of my lovely lady lumps!

"My humps, my humps, my humps..." - Black Eyed Peas

Words...

...so my friend Charlene posted about a free Olympic Toque with the purchase of 2 Old El Paso Products. That's great news and I think I might be able to get me one of them. Here's the thing...Toque...isn't that a weird word? I pronounce that TOO-QUE...so really, how would you know to spell it by just sounding it out? To me, Toque seems like it should be pronounced Toke.

While I'm discussing words, Read is another one. "I read a book"...."I love to read" Same word, same spelling, different pronunciation. How on earth can you have a word that's pronounced differently with the same spelling?....grammatically, it makes no sense. Listen to me, Gramatically...hehehe...as if I really know anything about grammar! I've watched "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader" so many times and lost at any question to do with Grammar! Like: How many adverbs are there in the following sentence, blah blah blah.....not a clue what is an adverb other than it is a word that describes a verb...now what the hell is a verb? I don't know! I don't need to know! I just need to be able to spell all words and who the hell cares what they're called!

Why are there silent letters? If they're silent then shouldn't they be invisible too? Why bother adding a letter that has no use? I can do that too....Lise....but really it's spelled Ljiwhse...the J, W and H are silent...take that! Who decides that?

I decided to research the "Word of the Year" for 2009. According to the web, the Oxford word of the year is "Unfriend" – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. hehehe...whatdoyaknow, it's a verb...well there you go!

Here's some other words that were up for consideration listed under their respective categories. (from the site http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/unfriend/):

Technology
hashtag – a # [hash] sign added to a word or phrase that enables Twitter users to search for tweets (postings on the Twitter site) that contain similarly tagged items and view thematic sets

intexticated – distracted because texting on a cellphone while driving a vehicle

netbook – a small, very portable laptop computer with limited memory

paywall – a way of blocking access to a part of a website which is only available to paying subscribers

sexting – the sending of sexually explicit texts and pictures by cellphone

Economy

freemium – a business model in which some basic services are provided for free, with the aim of enticing users to pay for additional, premium features or content

funemployed – taking advantage of one’s newly unemployed status to have fun or pursue other interests

zombie bank – a financial institution whose liabilities are greater than its assets, but which continues to operate because of government support
Politics and Current Affairs

Ardi – (Ardipithecus ramidus) oldest known hominid, discovered in Ethiopia during the 1990s and announced to the public in 2009

birther – a conspiracy theorist who challenges President Obama’s birth certificate

choice mom – a person who chooses to be a single mother

death panel – a theoretical body that determines which patients deserve to live, when care is rationed

teabagger -a person, who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as “Tea Party” protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773)

Environment

brown state – a US state that does not have strict environmental regulations

green state – a US state that has strict environmental regulations

ecotown - a town built and run on eco-friendly principles
Novelty Words

deleb – a dead celebrity

tramp stamp – a tattoo on the lower back, usually on a woman

"More than words..." - Extreme

Strike...

...so apparently some of the workers at the hospital may be going on strike as of Jan 11th. Don't you kind it funny that with all the H1N1 fiasco, it would be important to have all maintenance staff working at the hospital? We basically have to nod or chest bump people in order to say "Hi" as touching someones hand would be the end of the earth...and now we'll be able to go to the hospital, the germiest place on earth, and not have anyone to clean the germs. Then, we get news that we shouldn't worry and still go to the ER if we need help. Well Geesh...not that long ago you could barely walk through the doors without a full astronaut outfit and a real life bubble around you...and now we'll have to walk over dirty, wet, icky floors....pee on...ugh....you get my point.

I'm not saying that they shouldn't strike...everyone has a right to fair wages, no matter what job you're doing...but shouldn't the government try to resolve something like this before the last freakin minute? They are well aware of when the contract is up, after all, they argue every time it comes up for renewal! I can't visit anyone at the hospital cause of the H1N1 Visitor Ban, I can't read anything while I'm there because of the H1N1 ban, my child can't have anything to do cause of the H1N1 ban...and now I'll be expected to bring my cleaning supplies or take my garbage with me...hell no! I pick up enough and clean enough crap at my house that I refuse to do it anywhere else...after all, part of my money goes to pay those workers...give them a fair wage...respect them...they are surely worth it to me...AND IT'S MY MONEY!

Ok...enough of the serious talk for today....

"Hands up, what
Hands up, what
Hand-hands up, what
Hands up, get your hands up, what" - TLC

Random Tuesday thoughts...

...so sometimes I wonder weird things...ok, I always think of weird things...and wonder if all of you have thought the same.

My thoughts for today are:

-When you go to pee, do you grab some toilet paper as you pee or wait till your done? I tend to get it as I pee and then fold it neatly and wait.
-How do you put on liquid eyeliner and not get it everywhere? Every time I put it on I end up with some all over my damn lid. I'm too impatient and in a hurry in the mornings.
-What the hell did we do before Facebook? I now feel the need to know what everyone is up to at all times...never in my life did I think it was so important to know that Tante Josephine was going to town or that my old University friend was tired or that an old acquaintance was ...
-How do people get knee highs to to stay at their knees? Mine always roll down to my ankles and then I look like an idiot.
-Why do people shovel our their driveways into the road? Isn't it more annoying to have snow on the road where you'll be driving a lot faster than in your own driveway? Why doesn't someone tell them not to do that?
-Are we all alcoholics? Really.,....I always wonder if I drink too much...what is too much? Some people drink everyday...some drink once a week...what one is worse? Seems to me like the only people that aren't alcoholics are those who simply don't drink at all.
-Who put the bomp in the bomp shoo bomp shoo bomp?
-Who put the dit in the dit de dit de dit?
-Do people who wear their favorite sports team's jersey out in public as part of their outfit that day feel like they're cool? It's kinda tacky, if you asked me...but then again, what do I know.
-Why does Tim Horton's still have the smallest drive-thru known to man? You think they would have clued in that they need more room by now!
-Why do rappers still have dumb lyrics...new example: Tik Tok by Kei$ha. She says:

"Ain’t got a care in world, but got plenty of beer

Ain’t got no money in my pocket, but I’m already here

Now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger

But we kick ‘em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger"

Love the song, but is there any part of that that makes any sense? If some guy that looked like Mick Jagger was coming my way I'd run ....I'm not really attracted to very large mouths.

-Tila Tequila's fiance died today...who the hell is Tila Tequila?

Anyways...those are the things that have entered my mind today.........and yes, I'm on medication already!! hehehe

"Don’t stop, make it pop...DJ, blow my speakers up...Tonight, I’mma fight...‘Til we see the sunlight..." - Tik Tok - Kei$ha

A funny to welcome 2010!

...so i'm back to work and my colleague just showed me a video that I have now spent the last 10 minutes in tears, laughing so hard. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA

It's Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of the Heart" video...but they made a literal version...HILARIOUS!

Enjoy and i'll blog some more later!